I came across this article today as I was reading the news.
13 Year Old Girl Confirmed Dead
Now, tell me, exactly where was God?
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Perhaps he was in the shower when she was raped.
Her crime was being raped by 3 men.
Or using the bathroom when they found her guilty of adultery.
When she reported the rape to the militia who control Kismayo, Somalia, she was charged with fornication (adultery)
Maybe in the middle of catching a Pat Robertson newscast while she was convicted.
and sentenced to death by stoning.
At 13.
At 13.
Maybe he was cheering on his football team while she was prepared for her sentence. Everyone knows god picks favorites.
Kicking and screaming in terror, the girl was carried into the stadium.
Reading the last, suspenseful chapters of the DaVinci Code.
1,000 onlookers watched as her hands and legs were forcefully bound
Just possibly he turned away, unconcerned because she wasn’t an American.
13 year old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was buried up to her neck and a cape was placed over her head, leaving only her face exposed.
Or a Christian.
50 men hurled stones at her face from the truckload unloaded earlier that day.
I wonder if he flinched, just a little, as the first stone struck.
According to onlookers, 3 times nurses were instructed to check whether she was still alive.
Or went back to talking United States foreign policy with George W. Bush.
They pulled the teen from the ground,
Not once.
declared she was still alive
Not twice.
and put her back in the hole for the stoning to continue.
But three times.
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Now, pray tell me, where was God?
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Yeah. That’s what I thought.
Three possibilities …
(1) God is a misogynistic asshole who approves of the brutal death by stoning for 13 year old rape victims (and many would point to the Bible and/or Quran to support this view).
(2) God doesn’t approve of killing 13 year old rape victims but is incapable of action (perhaps we should check the hospital intensive care units for skee-ball playing gentlemen who are in comas).
(3) There is no god or gods – all good and evil that happens in the world isn’t caused by supernatural forces but rather by the hearts and hands of men and women.
There are more possibilities than that Steve. I am a bit surprised that you believe that “all good and evil that happens in the world” is caused by the hearts and hands of men and women. Don’t you believe in natural evil?
For the record God is omnipresent. People who believe in God, or indeed know that God exists based on profound personal experience of God, have to deal with the reality that God has allowed this sort of thing (and much worse) to happen throughout human history.
For me the question is this — when did we stop being human beings, or were we ever worth a damn? Most of us know, on some level, that God is not much of a team player but that is no reason for us to keep devolving, working our way back to the beast. Maybe global warming is all that we deserve.
I’ll take door number three. Without humans there would be no evil (just brute facts of nature).
roger
Krishna, God, says that if you want to live in the material world, you do so at your own risk.
Karma and reincarnation solve the “problem of evil” quite well.